Shingle fastener



Nav. 17,1925. 1,561,677

- l H. w. WHITE SHINGLE FASTENER F'illfcl4 Jan 2. 1925 Patented Nov. 17, 1925.

. 1,561,677 PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY W. WHITE, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

SHINGLE FASTENER.

Application le'd January 2, 1925. 'Serial No. 189.

To all whom-'it 11mg/ conca/"fn:

Be it known that I, HENRY 7. WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certainl new and useful Improvements in Shingle Fasteners and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ot' the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to wire shingle fastening means, and has for its object to prov ide a device of this kind which will be simple in' construction, comparatively mexpensive to manufacture, and more certain in action than those which have been hereto fore proposed. y

lVith these and other objectsv in view, the invention consists in the novel details of construction more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification in which like numerals designate like parts in all the. v1ews,

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of a p0rtion of a shingled roof with this invention applied thereto;

Figure 2 is a cross sectional view of the parts shown in Fig. 1; Y

Figure 3 is ay diagrammatic plan view showing how this invention may beapplied to rectangular or polygonal shaped .shingles;

Fi re 4-is a perspective View of the shingle fastener detached from the roof;

Figure 5 is a sectionalview taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4; and

Figure 6 is a diagrammatic view of the end portion of a somewhat modified form of` shingle fastener.

` 1 indicates ordinary rectangular shingles laid upon a roof in overlapped relations as indicated, 2 the upturned overlying ends of a shingle fastener provided with a main -body portion' and holding loops 4 as indicated. Through the loops 4 are passed the nails 5 to hold the fastener firmly inl place, as will be clear from Figs. 1, 2 and 5. In other words, as will be clear from Figs. 1 and 2, the main body portion 3 of the fastener is laid down flat upon the lower layer of shingles 1 so that the loops 4 will overlie adjacent shingles separated by a crack 6. Nails 5 are then driven through the lower position material.

layer of shingles 1 and through the loops4 into the sheathing 7 below saidsinglcs so as to hold the fastener firmly in place with its upturned ends 2 ready to receive shingles of the upper layer, as shown in the drawings. After the main body portion 3 of the fastener is thus secured to the lower layer of shingles, the upper layer of shingles l is slipped under the overlying hooked end portions 2 of the fastener and said hooked portions 2 may be given a blow with a hammer which will cause the same to snugly hold the shingles 1 in place.

In the somewhat modified form of hooked end shown in Fig. 6, the hook portion 2.is given a curved shape, as indicated at 9, so that when the extreme end is struck by a hammer it willsink into the shingle 1 at the point 10, as indicated. In other words, the hooked end 2 is preferably so cut ofi' as to leave a sharp point which may readily enter the shingle when struck by a hammer, although the perfectly straight form of hooked vend is also useful when mashed down upon the shingles, and especially when the shin gles are made of paper, felt or of other com- Fig. 3 illustrates how the main body portion 3 may overlie overlapping portions of a pair of rectangular shingles 11 and 12, have nails driven through the looped portions 4, and how the overlying hooked ends v2 may receive a third overlapping shingle 13. In vother words, this shingle fastener is adapted not only for the ordinary form of wooden shingles shown in Fig. 1, but it is also adapted for the various kinds and shapes ofasphalt shingles, as will be clear from Fig. 3.

It is an important feature of this invenvention that the loops` are at right angles to the main body portion 3 of the shingle and that the wire is not bent through a complete circle of 360 degrees so as to provide overlapped portions of 'the wire in the fastener at the loop vportions thereof. Should such a construction be adopted, there would be two thicknesses of wire separating the upper and lower tiers of shingles, whereas when the loop is not completely closed, as is illustrated in Fig. 4, only 4a Single thickness of wire separates the upper and lower 'shingles, .all as will beclear from distinct fastener for each individual shingle, so that the portions of the hooks-2 may extend around the two side edges of each shingle and thus hold them irmly in position down neXt to the lower tier of shingles. In other words, as is well known to builders, a great deal of damage is done to shingle roofs due to the fact that the wind gets up under the lower ends and edges of the shingles, lifts the same and tears them from their positions onl the roof.` lf one attempts to prevent this by driving nails inl close to the lower ends or to the edges of the shingles, these nails are liable to `split the shingles, and if the -material is nnt very strong the wind is liable to tearl .the shingles from the nails, so that such fastening means are very unsatisfactory.

On the other hand, with a shingle fastener such as that illustrated in Fig. 4, nails pass' ing through the loops 4 can be driven through the lower tier of thel shingles and through the strongest portions of the ma-- terial of the shingles without any danger at all of splitting or otherwise injuring the shingles, while the hooks 2 can be so po ended loop adapted to' overlie 'a shingle, and with hooked end portions disposed in the same plane said plane being at right angles to the plane of said loop. l

' 2. The herein described shingle fastener made from a single piece of wire and of a length equal to the width of the portion of an upper shingle to be fastened and provided withv a main body portion adapted to overlie the surfaces of two abutting `lower shingles, said main body portion provided with a plurality of openended loops dis osed in one of the planes of said main bo y portion and also adapted to overlieY said surfaces and to receive nails driven through said surfaces, and said main body portion further provided at each end por? tion with ,turned over hooks disposed in another plane of said main body portion and substantially at right angles to the plane of said loops.

3. The herein described shingle fastener made from a single piece of wire bent to form a plurality of open-ended loops adapted to lie flat upon the surfaces of a pair .0f lower shingles disposed adjacent each other and to receive nails driven through said shingles, said wire at eachendv outside of said loops also bent to form open "hook portions disposed in a lane substantially at right angles to sai loops adaptedto receive the side edges of' an upper shingle overlyi/hg said lower shingles, and said hook portions provided with a curved portion near the extreme ends of the wire to facilitate the driving of said ends into the material of said upper shingle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. a HENRY W. WHITE. 

